by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 14, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Risk Management, Technology
Researchers analysed land temperatures from all over the world and discovered that, although contributing only 2 percent of land warming between 1992 and 2019, urbanisation is still not the primary driver of climate change. It was discovered that India’s urban...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Factors besides climate change — such as poor flood-control infrastructure and deforestation — played a role in making the floods more destructive. But it was the interplay between climate change and El Niño, the occasional warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 2, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Features, Risk Management, Technology
“While variations in climate can cause variations in Clear Air Turbulence (CAT), a robust increase in CAT over decades is very likely to be because of climate change,” Manoj Joshi, a Professor of Climate Dynamics at the University of East Anglia, UK, said...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 21, 2024 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy, Risk Management
Today, over two billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, and 3.5 billion are deprived of safely managed sanitation facilities. Resulting infectious diseases contribute to at least 1.4 million annual deaths and 50% of global malnutrition “To improve...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 15, 2024 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
“Heatwaves have always happened. But the additional heat, driven by emissions from oil, gas and coal, is resulting in death for many people.” In the Philippines, one of the worst-hit countries, authorities issued health warnings, shut down schools and...